394. BIRDS—PICID &. 
between the bases of the next two pairs. Bill stout, straight, with the tip truncate or 
acute, not decurved (except in Colaptes) an efficient chisel for hammering or boring wood. 
Tongue vermiform, extensile (except in Sphyrapicus) and barbed. Salivary glands large; 
hyoidean apparatus peculiar. Nasal tufts usually present. Arboreal. 
GENUS HYLOTOMUS. Baird. 
Bill with a lateral ridge extending from base to tip. Outer posterior toe shorter than 
outer anterior. Nostrils linear. 
HyLoromus PILEATUS (L.) Baird. 
Pileated W oodpecker; Logcock. 
Picus pileatus, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Rep., 1838,162.—REaD, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., 
vi, 1853, 395.—TREMBLY, Field Notes, i, 1861, 65. 
Hylotomus pileatus, KIRKPATRICK, Ohio Farmer, ix, 1860, 315—WuHEATON, Ohio Agric, 
Rep. for 1860, 1861, 362, 373; Reprint, 4,15; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. 
for 1874, 1875, 569; Reprint, 9.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 11; Revised 
List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 178; Reprint, 12. 
Pileated Woodpecker, KirTLAND, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 1—Wueraton, Field Noies, i, 
1861, 92. 
Picus pileatus, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1776, 173. 
Hylotomus pileatus, BAIRD, Birds N. A., 1858, 107. 
Black ; the head, neck and wings much varied with white or pale yellowish; bill dark ; 
male, scarlet crested, scarlet moustached ; female with the crest half black, half scar- 
let, and no maxillary patches. Length, 15-19; wing, @4-10; tail, 6-7. 
Habitat, timbered regions of North America at large. 
Not common resident in most parts of the State. The Pileated Wood- 
pecker, Logcock, or Woodcock as sometimes erroneously called, was, forty 
years since, a common bird in all parts of the State. Comparatively few 
now remain in the western and especially northwestern portions, still 
fewer in the hilly southern andeastern portions. In the vicinity of any 
of our larger towns and cities it may be considered accidental. I have 
CAMPEPHILUS PRINCIPALIS (L.) Gray. 
IKvory-=-billed W codpecker. 
Campephilus principalis, LANGDON, Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 178 ; 
Reprint, 12. 
Picus principalis, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1776, 173. 
Campephilus principalis, GRAY, Genera, 1840. 
Habitat, Southern Atlantic and Gulf States. North to North Carolina and mouth of 
the Ohio. 
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is very properly included in his “‘ Revised List” of Cin- 
cinnati Birds, by Mr. Langdon, on the authority of Dr. Haymond, who states that they 
were formerly found in Franklin county, Indiana, a locality not far from the western 
boundary of Ohio. Doubtless they were once residents of this State, but in default of 
any direct and positive evidence to that effect, they should not be admitted to our list; 
